After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
Did you know? In the scene where Polly is on the phone to her editor, reporting the advance of the giant robots, her line "They're crossing Sixth Avenue... Fifth Avenue... they're a hundred yards away..." is directly lifted from Ray Collins's lines in Orson Welles's "The War of the Worlds" broadcast of 1938 as Collins plays a reporter on the roof of "the Broadcast Building" reporting the advance of the Martian tripods. Read More
Director Kerry Conran originally wanted to produce it as if it were a lost serial from the 1930s, with the film featuring unknown actors, shot in black and white, and divided into chapters each ending with a cliffhanger. All of these ideas were subsequently abandoned in an attempt to gain bigger box office appeal.
In the scene where Sky Captain and Polly fly submerged with "The Amphibious Squadron," they "overfly" a sunken steamer named "Venture." It's the ship used to bring King Kong to New York. It even includes on its deck a cage large enough to confine Kong; implying perhaps that this is the original Skull Island.
In the scene where Polly is on the phone to her editor, reporting the advance of the giant robots, her line "They're crossing Sixth Avenue... Fifth Avenue... they're a hundred yards away..." is directly lifted from Ray Collins's lines in Orson Welles's "The War of the Worlds" broadcast of 1938 as Collins plays a reporter on the roof of "the Broadcast Building" reporting the advance of the Martian tripods.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004
17 Sep 2004 ● English ● 1 hr 46 mins
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